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You’re supposed to lift something off the ground instead of dragging it. That applies to cheap or expensive furniture, or anything really.
Not if you know what you're doing(invest in some felt pads or sliders, for starters); Seriously, you just defined one of the defining features of disposable versus furniture, and pretending price-at-retail defines it will only lead to tears.
There's also a big difference between re-arranging a single room versus moving through doorways and stairs; housekeepers can move/shift/tilt furniture to clean under it, but aren't expected to lift it.
Among the many obvious steps-up from this product are swivel-casters. Even just using shims for height and levelling-adjustment at least won't damage the furniture if its designed and built right.
Adding swivel casters to furniture doesn’t change that pushing on its side isn’t something it’s ever designed for. The furniture or item needs to designed and built from the ground up with side forces in mind. Which they usually never need to be designed for, so it’s a waste of time, engineering and material to do so. Now obviously “movable” furnitures and items should have that as a basic design. Which is why they cost factors more.
You’re still doing damage, even if it’s not visible.
Maybe the reason why cheap stuff gets broken so easy is because people like you tell them they can do it? Instead of explaining why it doesn’t matter how easy you make it, it’s still the wrong way and damaging it.
Never seen flush-mounted swivel-casters I take it? Honestly belive baroque-era fainting couches and furniture-in-general, the stuff with curved legs at every-which-angle wasn't designed for and couldn't take side-loading?
It's really weird how y'all keep talking at me like this stuff isn't solved problems in these days of engineered wood, carbon-fiber, and even just fiber-glass-or-bake-lite with a little pot-metal thrown in. The fact you can handle disposable furniture like a museum piece in order to beg it to last longer like a patched-up blow-up-doll-as-idol doesn't change what it is; Hopefully soon to be a regrettable foot-note in history.
Chuck it in a closet and bring it out for parades if you love it so much, but don't pretend the rest of us "just don't get it", or its better than the drag-queens' paper-mache dildo float. Both have their place of course, but a prime spot in a dining room, kitchen or living-room ain't it.
Okay buddy.
Furniture meant to move is built stronger, some stuff still needs to be moved though, and there’s a right and wrong way to go about it.
Imagine putting words in another person's mouth over using one part versus another that costs about the same. Sure, you and I can pick-up whatever. Can your housekeeper?
When a grandmother breaks her hip because she slid a chair a few inches to clean around it and one of these adjustable feet breaks, unexpectedly tipping the chair, your solution is what? Yell at her for not being more careful?
Funny story, furniture is built and sold for the use of everyone, but some of what's out there isn't even suitable for a doll-house. Just because is not Arsenic Tea doesn't mean it belongs on shelves or needs exempted from minimum standards in the interests of saving a few pennies.
If someone needs a chair that can slide around, than they shouldn’t be buying the cheapest thing and one not designed to be lmfao. What kind of asinine logic is that?
And are you seriously suggesting to put casters on a chair…? The one thing an old lady probably doesn’t want randomly moving on them? That’s your solution? You aren’t all there are you?
I’ve never seen a housekeeper move furniture to clean, in fact, they’re usually prevented from doing. They can’t/wont since as you’ve so ignorantly keep saying, there is a good chance they break easy, they don’t want that liability. And as you said, they’re usually small, so they CANT move stuff, or they’ll hurt themselevs. The only time that happens is when you shampoo the carpets, and you need to do that since they don’t. Cleaners don’t move furniture to clean, full stop. You are full of shit.
You are now fabricating completely false scenarios to justify doing absolutely stupid stuff, instead of just buying stuff meant for the purpose?
Do you just make shit up to hear yourself talk or something?
You can’t just clap casters on something that wasn’t designed for it and call it a day, fuck, people like you give real tradesman bad names. You’re a hack if you actually build furniture, but you other comment says you’re a mover, so yeah, that explains basically everything about your comments and attitude here.
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Than why does furniture have a max weight…? Cabinets are too tall for little people as well. Every piece of furniture has a purpose and a specific use/case. Not everything is for everyone, where the hell did you get this asinine idea from?
And the fact that it needs to be modified to do something it wast meant for isn’t another clue…?
No, if you’re using sliders you’re just lazy and cheap. You always lift something to move it. Even if it’s a couple feet.
Sliders can still get debris or slide on the floor scratching it, no company worth their salt uses them. Since it’s damaging to the floor and the equipment or furniture or whatever you’re moving.
Just because you CAN do something, doesn’t mean you should or it’s a smart thing to do. Most stuff isn’t designed to have lateral force applied to it, so to do so, even with sliders, will damage it. If you lift and move cheap furniture instead of sliding it, it won’t break the first time you move it lmfao.
Talking at me like I don't own and use a shoulder-dolley and furniture dolleys, but no, I'm not a professional mover; My ideals are literally anti-thetical to the need for such. Speaking of things furniture wasn't designed for, have you seen the size of people these days?
Doesn't change the fact that the screw-adjust feet you drive-into wood with a hammer, as shown in OP, are the wrong solution for just-about all of the furniture they are found in.
There are sturdier versions out there, as I mentioned in my first comment, and rust-flakes will tear-up a floor.
Now, if you know enough to be so concerned for floors, are you aware you can get felt-pads large-enough to slide the furniture across, rather than sliding the pad across the floor? The furniture I really like is too heavy to lift in one piece anyways, more like a built-in once its situated.